State of the Union Addresses

by Franklin D. Roosevelt

State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt

The addresses are separated by three asterisks: ***

Dates of addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt in this eBook:

[January 3, 1934]
[January 4, 1935]
[January 3, 1936]
[January 6, 1937]
[January 3, 1938]
[January 4, 1939]
[January 3, 1940]
[January 6, 1941]
[January 6, 1942]
[January 7, 1943]
[January 11, 1944]
[January 6, 1945]

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State of the Union Address
Franklin D. Roosevelt
January 3, 1934

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Senators and Representatives in Congress:

I come before you at the opening of the Regular Session of the 73d Congress, not to make requests for special or detailed items of legislation; I come, rather, to counsel with you, who, like myself, have been selected to carry out a mandate of the whole people, in order that without partisanship you and I may cooperate to continue the restoration of our national wellbeing and, equally important, to build on the ruins of the past a new structure designed better to meet the present problems of modern civilization.

Such a structure includes not only the relations of industry and agriculture and finance to each other but also the effect which all of these three have on our individual citizens and on the whole people as a Nation.